Understood: Deepfake Porn Empire E3: The Notorious D.P.F.K.S.
Mar 3, 2026
Ida Herskind, a Danish journalist who exposed non-consensual deepfake porn, recounts uncovering a major site and its toxic forum culture. She describes tracing usernames, linking leaked credentials, and working with OSINT investigators to identify the operator. The conversation follows the hunt from early discoveries to confronting the person behind the operation.
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Community Migration Made Deepfake Sites Resilient
- r/deepfakes was banned in 2018 but users immediately migrated and launched dpfks.com, later mrdeepfakes.com.
- By 2024 MrDeepFakes hosted 70,000+ videos and received millions of visitors monthly, showing platform resilience after moderation.
Platform Pairing Library With Pay-To-Request Forum
- MrDeepFakes combined a massive searchable video library with an active forum of ~650,000 members.
- The forum let users request and pay for custom non-consensual deepfakes, fueling production and demand.
Anonymity Stack Designed To Foil Law Enforcement
- Operators hid behind proxy domain registration, offshore hosting, and crypto payments that generated new addresses per transaction.
- These tactics made legal enforcement and tracing revenue extremely difficult across jurisdictions.